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• Of course, ministers look upon theaters as rival attractions, and most of their hatred is born of business views. They think people ought to be driven to church by having all other places closed. In my judgment the theater has done good, while the church has done harm. The drama never has insisted upon burning anybody. Persecution is not born of the stage.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Drama, Thinking, Views

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2164, Library of Alexandria

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• Do not look down, brooding over your weakness! Do not look back upon your past, strewn with failure! Look up to the living Christ!

  F.B. Meyer

  Past, Over You, Weakness

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• Baseball can build you up to the sky one day and the next day you have to climb a stepladder to look up at a snake.

  Johnny Pesky

  Baseball, Sky, Snakes

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• There are some films that arrive here from the international festival circuit almost incandescent with self-importance. They hover into the cinema in a kind of floating trance at how challenging and moving they are. They are films with a profound reluctance to get over themselves. They look up at the sceptical observer with the saucer-eyed saintliness of a baby seal in culling season, or a charity mugger smilingly wishing a nice day on the retreating back of a passer-by. One such is Babel.

  Peter Bradshaw

  Baby, Nice, Moving

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• Knowing me is easy. You can still twist your hair and feel silly. Look up the word tacky and have a salad. But when we're together you pull bread apart with your fingers into bites sometimes so small I gotta remind you, Peach, it is okay to be hungry.

  Buddy Wakefield

  Silly, Hair, Knowing

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• I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.

  Joseph Heller

  Roots, Looks, Way

  Joseph Heller, Adam J. Sorkin (1993). “Conversations with Joseph Heller”, p.176, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 'Fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great transformations of the world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming.

  Roger Zelazny

  Reality, Men, Thinking

  "Lord of Light". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1967.

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• O, that we who declare war against wars, and acknowledge our trust to be in God only, may walk in the light, and therein examine our foundation and motives in holding onto money! May we look upon our estates, our treasures, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these, our possessions.

  John Woolman

  War, Light, House

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• I have more appreciation for why the Bible avoids fuzzy psychologisms and says simply to the stealer, "Steal no more," and to the tempted, "Flee temptation." The Bible challenges us to look upward, not inward, for counsel at moments of crisis.

  Philip Yancey

  Appreciation, Temptation, Challenges

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• Look upon paintings with eyes of mystery rather than judgement. Support the need to enter into the sacred space beyond evaluation.

  Michele Cassou

  Eye, Space, Support

  Michele Cassou, Stewart Cubley (1996). “Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous”, p.147, Penguin

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• Rahul is the kind of person who young cricketers can look up to; not only because of his success but also because of the way he conducts himself.

  Steve Waugh

  Looks, Way, Kind

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• Don't think I am going to let Bob Hoskins take all his clothes off and me not take a look? I just had a quick look up and down, like you would.

  Judi Dench

  Thinking, Clothes, Looks

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• I'm here to change things so that little girls have someone to look up to. I'm here to fight the eating-disorder battle that millions of people are having and I'm standing up and saying that's not okay. Frankly, I can't fail. I will not fail.

  Whitney Thompson

  Girl, Fighting, People

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• There is the National Flag. He must be cold, indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country. If he be in a foreign land, the flag is companionship and country itself, with all its endearment...The very colors have a language which was recognized by our fathers; white is for purity; red, for valor; blue, for justice. And altogether, bunting, stripes, stars, and colors, blazing in the sky, make the flag of our country, to be cherished by all our hearts, to be upheld by all our hands.

  Charles Sumner

  Country, Stars, Father

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• The heart becomes wide by forgetting self, but narrow by thinking of the self and pitying one's self. To gain a wide and broad heart you must have something before you to look upon, and to rest your intelligence upon - and that something is the God-ideal.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Heart, Thinking, Self

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1974). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Vision of God and Man, Confessions, Four Plays”, p.144, Library of Alexandria

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• I find it very sad that so many girls who look up to me are young women of color who have been told that they are ugly, and who feel that they are not normal...I think it's so important that women look like me find that they can be beautiful or objects of love, attention and affection.

  Mindy Kaling

  Beautiful, Girl, Thinking

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• When you go to the cinema you look up, when you watch television you look down.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Watches, Cinema, Looks

  " Is Watching Movies Too Hard, or Are Audiences Getting Soft?" by Sam Adams, www.indiewire.com. April 2, 2014.

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• Some people are so afraid of losing their individuality. Wouldn't it be better for the pig to lose his pig-individuality if he can become God? Yes. But the poor pig does not think so at the time. Which state is my individuality? When I was a baby sprawling on the floor trying to swallow my thumb? Was that the individuality I should be sorry to lose? Fifty years hence I shall look upon this present state and laugh, just as I now look upon the baby state. Which of these individualities shall I keep?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Baby, Sorry, Thinking

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.114, editionNEXT.com

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• When we look up at the sky, we are trying to find the way to ourselves.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Sky, Trying, Looks

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• My entire education in music was in reading interviews with bands like Stereolab and finding out about Brazilian music or a Romanian composer. You expose yourself to what people you look up to admire.

  Bradford Cox

  Reading, People, Looks

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I think the way we look upon gender is that we're realizing that we're not that different, which is a good thing. The United States needs to come further with that. In the Scandinavian countries, we've come further when it comes to gender politics and how we look upon gender and how women are treated in general.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Country, Thinking, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!

  Jackie Evancho

  America, Looks, Talent

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• I look up to Jimmy Fallon. He hosts talk shows as a fan himself, and that's how I do it. When the celebrities come in, I'm excited that they're there. It's not just like a formal, 'Hey, how are ya?' It's like, 'Dude, what the hell! So happy to see you!' That's what Jimmy Fallon does every time.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Fans, Doe, Looks

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• The interests of the States... ought to be made joint in every possible instance in order to cultivate the idea of our being one nation, and to multiply the instances in which the people shall look up to Congress as their head.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ideas, Order, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1853). “The writings of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography, correspondence, reports, messages, addresses, and other writings, official and private : published by the order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the original manuscripts, deposited in the Department of State”, p.347

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• Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Father, Pursuit Of Happiness

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